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The Walt Disney Company said today that Michael D. Eisner, the company's chairman and chief executive, bought 725,700 shares of Disney stock on Wednesday for about $10 million. The purchase, which was made at prices from $13.55 to $14.49 a share,...

August 16, 2002, Friday

The Texas billionaire Sid Richardson Bass has abandoned his stake in the Warnaco Group, the lingerie and clothing company, selling 7.5 million shares for a nickel each. The partnership in Fort Worth controlled by Mr. Bass, Prime 66 Partners,...

ONE are the Mickey T-shirts and the Pooh paraphernalia. After the terrorist attack on New York, Disney stores in Manhattan swapped the colorful merchandise that usually fills their display windows for huge posters quoting the company's founder, Walt...

Sell the Eiffel Tower to the Americans? Mayor Jean Tiberi of Paris was as outraged at the idea today as Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York City might be at a suggestion that the Brooklyn Bridge was for sale. ''There is no risk to the ownership...

A Bass family investment group has sold its entire stake in Sotheby's Holdings Inc. Class A shares to another group led by the money manager Ronald S. Baron for about $110 million. The Bass group sold 4.9 million Class A shares today at $22.48...

July 2, 1998, Thursday

The United States Filter Corporation, the nation's largest water-treatment company, has agreed to buy 50,000 acres of land and their water rights from the Bass family of Fort Worth. Under a deal to be announced today, the Bass family will in...

August 4, 1997, Monday

The stock of Fisher Scientific International Inc. rose 5 percent yesterday amid rumors that the company was seeking a buyer to fend off an unsolicited $1 billion takeover bid from the Bass family. Fisher's shares rose $2.4375, to close at $48.8125,...

July 31, 1997, Thursday

Fisher Scientific International Inc., a manufacturer of scientific instruments and supplies, said yesterday that it had received an unsolicited takeover proposal from Trinity I Fund L.P., a group affiliated with members of the Bass family, the Texas...

June 6, 1997, Friday

A group led by the Bass family of Fort Worth said today that it had raised its stake in Sotheby's Holdings Inc. to 4,732,900 class A shares, or 12.2 percent, from 10.3 percent previously held. In a filing with Securities and Exchange Commission, the...

April 11, 1997, Friday

THEY were the much-feared and often reviled commanders of the takeover wars of the 1980's. Fueled by junk bonds, they raided corporate America seemingly at will, and made vast fortunes. In their heyday, they hobnobbed with the junk-bond king Michael...